CATALYST IS CISSA’S SECOND ANNUAL FLAGSHIP HACKATHON FOR STUDENTS.

Ticket Purchase: Catalyst 2024 Ticket on Humanitix

Team Registration: ONE person from each team to fill out this Google Form

Online venue/Discord (team-finding, announcements, socials): CISSA Discord Server

Participant Information Guide: Notion Page

In-person venue: Arts West. If you'd like to meet up with your team members physically and work on your project together, we have rooms availble for you here!

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Our flagship semester 2 Hackathon Catalyst! This year’s theme revolves around the fun side of tech. Think games, movies, music and more! Build a project over the weekend for a chance to win attractive prizes, all while munching on good food and receiving professional mentoring!

Media permeates nearly every aspect of modern life. You listen to music on the way to work, watch short-form content while brushing your teeth, go to see movies with loved ones. This theme is all about enhancing peoples’ relationship with the media they consume. Be it recommending content that users will enjoy, to limiting the hours spent on social media, the possibilities are endless! We want you to build innovative, disruptive projects that will change the way we, as digital citizens, consume media.

Example projects:

Collaborative movie-watching app, music app that analyses your music taste etc

Everyone wants to look drippy! This theme is not just about looking good (though it is always a priority!). Fashion encompasses a wide range of industries and processes, transforming raw materials to appealing clothing, accessories and fragrances that you want to wear. Sourcing of raw materials, designing clothing, supply chain management, marketing and more, these are all areas which can be improved with the use of technology! This is where you come in, come up with projects that changes the way that people shop, and the way that clothing is produced and distributed.

Example projects:

Web extensions for getting discounts, market analytics tools for fashion companies, platform to design clothing etc.

Gaming today is no longer just a niche hobby as it was in the decades prior. With the value of the industry projected to reach $294b by the end of 2024, video games are a big money business. Consequently, we have also seen the unprecedented rise of E-sports, with major events like The International having prize pools of up to $1.5 million. This theme encompasses all facets of the gaming industry, you can build a game, create software that helps gamers improve, design an anti-cheat system and more! Show us something the gaming world has never seen!

Example projects:

Reflex training tool, arcade-style game etc.

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Opening Ceremony (16th Aug):

Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Arts West, University of Melbourne

Start: 6:30PM

• Important information will be presented, themes will be expanded upon
• Hacking commences!
• Team building activity

Full Hacking Day (17th Aug):

Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Arts West, University of Melbourne

Start: 9:00AM

• Mentoring available after lunch
• Lunch (Lots of banh mi!)
• Dinner

Half Hacking Day, Closing Ceremony (18th Aug)

Start: 9:00AM

• Mentoring available after lunch
• Lunch
• Hacking Ends 5:00PM
• Dinner
• Prize presentation

• Technology [20%]
  
• Creativity and Innovation [40%]
  
• UI/UX Design [20%]
  
• Presentation [20%]